Comments on: How widely used is Chrome? More than I expected

In two months, Google's Chrome rose from nothing to 3.6 percent of browsers used to view CNET News. It's less common in the mainstream though.

[mattumanu]

I hate auto playing video. I've said this over and over again and yet you people still have ads that play video automatically. The iPhone ad that plays at the top of the main page has no way to stop it after it starts. Therefore, I've blacklisted this site on my network for the weekend. We'll see what happens by monday.

[Jyakotu]

It's funny how people assume so many features in Chrome are innovative, when Opera had them from the start. Opera is still faster and Chrome even took the layout design from Opera and the Speed Dial feature. Opera's desktop market shart may be small, but it's really the best browser out there.

[nathan_addicted_to_cnet]

I can understand the appeal of Chrome, but why not go with Minefield Alpha, like I did? I made the switch because there is a notable increase in speed between it and chrome, and it does support a variety (but not all of) firefox's extensions.
You can find it here: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

[checkingout]

What suprised me is the lack of folks using Opera - like me..haha

[tvleavitt]

My moment of conversion occurred when I was viewing a site that choked both IE and all the Mozilla derived browsers I have on my machine (Firefox, SeaMonkey, Kmeleon), but ran without hesitation in Chrome. Up to that point, I'd been using Kmeleon (primarily), because it was the most lightweight browser out there*, but I've almost completely abandoned it at this point. I still use IE once in a while, for sites that require it (such as QuickBooks Online and Windows Update), and will fire up another browser (Safari, Kmeleon, Firefox, IE as a last resort) if I run into an incompatibility, but that's it.

In fact, I'm using Chrome right now, and I really don't miss any of the functionality present in other browsers. For me, Google's philosophy is a spot on match for my needs.

* My laptop is a dual core 1.6GHz Toshiba with 2GB of memory. Hardly an antique, but not exactly a screamer... it seems funny to say so, but running a lightweight browser really does make a substantial difference in the machine's overall performance.